Oct. 29, 2017
07:31 am JST

Oct. 29, 2017
07:46 am JST

Wow my eyes opened suddenly.

DPRK is actually singing in harmony with us! Now that they have stopped playing the retarded nuclear baseball, they actually come out with legit accusations. Now, if everyone has been hearing those pranks they call threats and believed them, maybe now they will hear truth about Japanese elections and believe it!

Oct. 29, 2017
08:02 am JST

Oct. 29, 2017
08:38 am JST

Abe has put pressures on NKoera for last 5 years. What does he get in return ? He won election but NKorea got Nukes. How good deal is that ? Now Abe even thanked NKorea through his deputy. I think the world has 1000 reasons to ask why ?

Oct. 29, 2017
09:44 am JST

Oooo I can't to see all the comments below singing in harmony with the DPRK.

Flying five ballistic missiles directly at/over and several nuclear tests in a year is nothing to worry about.

What is worrying is that the people dealing with this problem are Shinzo Abe and the LDP. I wouldn't trust any of those stupid, corrupt geriatrics to manage to tie up their shoes by themselves, never mind manage a crisis, given their record of not really achieving much of anything. However I'm sure Abe will be able to continue stringing gullible suckers along and spinning votes out of it, just like his Deputy PM more or less admitted.

Oct. 29, 2017
10:51 am JST

N. Korea's belligerence aside, it's true, isn't it? And "The Party for Japanese Kokoro" helped. It's easy to vilify N. Korea (which it's leadership deserves) but N. Korea isn't really seeking war - if it wanted that it would simply attack someone. It's actually crying out for discussions, and guarantees of Kim regime survival. It wants to discourage anyone from attacking itself, because it knows it cannot win a war against the USA.

Oct. 29, 2017
12:44 pm JST

Oct. 29, 2017
01:48 pm JST

Tokyo-EngrToday 12:14 pm JST

@Simon - You and I know very well it never will. However based on some comments here I wonder who people would choose.

I don't, no matter what people might say. As ghastly as the DPRK regime is, though, when they make these kinds of allegations I'm afraid I just find them very easy to believe. Everyone can be right about something, and it takes an odious sleazebag with no morals or integrity to know one. I mean, I don't think a whole lot of Stalin but I wouldn't dispute anything bad he said about Hitler. Anyway, it's not as if they're saying anything that a lot of people didn't already think or suspect.

Oct. 29, 2017
02:26 pm JST

No doubt, Abe made the best use of "the national crisis" brought about by North Korean missile launchings and nuclear testing, saying this was Japan's national crisis. By arousing the sense of impending crisis he intended not only to garner more confidence votes for his party and government but also facilitate his long-standing agenda to amend the pacifist constitution.

Like it or not, Pyongyang is undoubtedly helping the Abe government take a revisionist course.